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Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track and some of the talks that you can expect to find at this year’s EclipseCon. Many (or perhaps most) of the talks on the Emerging Technology track...

Esther Schindler from CIO Magazine is doing a feature on anticipated Open Source Project releases in 2009. Of course Eclipse Galileo will be highly anticipated but what other releases (Eclipse related or other open source projects) will be important in 2009. Leave a comment about which release and why. I...

In this video recorded at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Tom Schindl, new co-lead of the Eclipse Nebula project, discusses the future of the project.

The third edition of “Eclipse Plug-ins” (previously titled “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins”) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel is available. Eclipse Plug-ins provides detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter. This comprehensive guide...

The Very Early Registration Deadline for EclipseCon 2009 is December 31st. Register today and save some money!

22 is the number of people who last year registered for EclipseCon on December 31, New Years Eve. Each year New Years Eve is one of the most popular days to register for EclipseCon since it is the last day for the very early registration prices. This year, people should...

I am pleased to announce we are organizing an Eclipse Banking Day in London on February 12. As with similar events in Frankfurt and New York, the goal is to encourage senior technical people from the financial services community to share their experiences of using Eclipse and open source software...

The holiday season is close upon us. The staff at the Eclipse Foundation in Ottawa would like to extend their best wishes to everyone in the Eclipse community. As many of you know, there are a lot of great people that work at the Foundation. I’ve asked each of them...

The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) and Image Utilities. I’ll defer discussion of Image Utilities for another day… As the name suggests, EBERT is an application that...

The deadline for the JavaOne Call for Papers is next Friday, December 19, 2008. I am sure lots of people are focused on EclipseCon but it would be great to get some Eclipse talks submited and accepted at JavaOne.